How to Get Away With Murder Review: Not Everything’s About Annalise (Season 3 Episode 11)

Character of Focus

• Annalise
• Michaela

Case of the Week

The People v. Keating/Delfino

On How to Get Away With Murder Season 3 Episode 11, “Not Everything’s About Annalise,” Frank comes forward to falsely(?) confess for Wes’ murder in an effort to get Mama Annalise off the hook. Isn’t that just the sweetest thing? Ladies, if your man won’t do this for you, dump him.

This ploy backfires tremendously, of course, and instead earns him a co-conspirator charge, leaving the both of them up a creek.

What would How to Get Away With Murder be without a bit of tension?

As Oliver hacks the D.A.’s office and the Keaterlings discover that Annalise is on the hook for several other cases, one can’t help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Whaaaat? No, I’m serious.

For three seasons, these guys have been putting out fires left and right, barely maintaining their sanity in the process. Can you imagine the sort of calm that comes with knowing that you no longer have to put out the tiny fires because EVERYTHING is on fire?

Connor ain’t lookin’ so crazy anymore, is he?

But Auntie Michaela isn’t about to let things go up in smoke just yet. She calmly takes the reigns from Bonnie and Beyoncés the rest of the ladies back into formation.

Season 1 Michaela was the unnerved one, ready to abandon ship with Connor (who, if I’m not mistaken, had actually been the most adamant about keeping a lid on things.)

The roles have now completely reversed, and Michaela manages not only to pull Connor and Asher back from the brink, but also keeps Oliver from potentially spilling the beans, all while getting her homework done.

Michaela: At least Mussolini got stuff done.

In fact, let’s give a hearty and ebullient round of applause for all the golden girls on this show holding it down while everyone else starts spiraling.

• Bonnie who thinks up a pretty good defense despite being blindsided by Frank’s confession and convinces Laurel to keep up the charade (she didn’t see the co-conspirator charge coming because she sucks at chess, not at her job.)
• Laurel who lost her boyfriend and baby daddy a little over a week ago and still has the presence of mind to lie to Nate, lie to the cops, and give Meggy the side-eye when offered a lime Jell-O.
• Jasmine, Annalise’s cell mate, who carries a razor blade in her hair. That alone is bad-ass.

Anyway, back to my original point: everything is about Annalise.

They aren’t called the Gibbins Five or the Castillo Five. Wes may have been the reason their paths got so dark and twisty, but Annalise has always been their guiding light, and now everyone—Frank, Bonnie, Laurel, Michael, Oliver, Connor, even President Hargrove a little bit sorta kinda— is doing everything they can to protect her even while she remains otherwise… occupied.

If everything wasn’t about Annalise, we’d all be watching a different show.

Meanwhile, with the sudden and profuse knowledge of all K5’s dirty laundry, Oliver has been officially inducted into the Keating circle and is probably going to need heavy-duty spooning to cope for the rest of his days. (I volunteer.)

Everything’s unravelling with Wes’ death and one cannot help but wonder if this is the end of line for Keating and her Keaterlings? And if so, what’s next?

Ugh. Television is so stressful. Don’t watch, kids. Stay in school.

Murder of the Week

Annalise’s tracks by??someone?? who?? got??money??apparent??ly

Wayward Case Files

• We get one more memory with Wes, though unlike everyone else’s, it is not shiny and happy, as befitting Frank’s outlook on life. Did he kill Wes? Probably not, but he’s not torn up about it.
• Frank’s motives have remained unchanged since day one: he wants to please Annalise. For someone so unpredictable, he sure is easy to read.
• Connor keeps pointing out that he and Wes weren’t friends. Is this because he reeeally wants everyone to know that or is it a “doth protest too much” situation?
• Meggy’s being pulled slowly into the dark side, and I don’t like it one bit. She needs to get herself a new residency. Go to Grey-Sloan Memorial. Nothing bad ever happens there.
• All the women in the shower scene were glowing blue, reminding me of a quote from Moonlight which you all must see before it wins the Oscar.
• Annalise: “If anyone offers me liquor in here, I’m drinking it.” L.O.L.
• Is this the first time everyone knows for certain that Rebecca is dead?
• D.A. Atwood needs to be stopped. Her vendetta against Annalise is becoming (if not already crossed into) obsessive.
• All episodes of the Golden Girls will actually be available on Hulu come Feb. 13 (just in time for Galentine’s Day)
• My sister once pulled out her own weave the way Annalise did and once my mother found out, I became an only child.
• Asher’s over here providing some much needed #relationshipgoals comic relief in these dark days.
• Connor says he should’ve broken up with Oliver awhile ago, but gays love drama too much. Fight me.

What did you think of this episode of How to Get Away With Murder? Would your mama kill you if she found out she paid all that money for good weave and you just cut it out with a razor? Share your thoughts in the comments below!

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How to Get Away With Murder airs Thursdays at 10/9c on ABC.

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